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COLUMN
NINETY-SIX,
SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
(Copyright © 2003 The Blacklisted Journalist)
CYBERSATANS STILL BUSY
SENDING OUT VIRUSES
(Drawing by Joel Roi Aronowitz)
Has someone begun a campaign to discredit THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST by sending out viruses under our forged email address? So far, we've received more than 100 notifications of viruses sent under our forged email address to email addresses unknown to us. The virus email headers include RE: DETAILS; YOUR DETAILS; WICKED SCREENSAVER; 8TH GRADE GRADUATION GIFT; THANK YOU; YOUR APPLICATION; MOVIE; and APPROVED.
Like dumbfuck juvenile
vandals unable to accomplish anything they can be proud of other than desultory
destruction, random wreckage, and malicious injury upon anybody they can
possibly hurt, the cybersatans are still hard at work sending out
self-replicating worms and viruses to prey upon innocent recipients.
For instance, if you get an
email that in any way resembles the following:
Subject:
your account uoiurbar
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:41:21 -0400
From: admin@bigmagic.com
To: Blackj info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Hello
there,
I
would like to inform you about important information regarding your email
address. This email address will be expiring. Please read attachment for
details.
---
Best
regards, Administrator
uoiurbar
message.zip
Name: message.zip
Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
Encoding: base64
DON’T OPEN THE
ATTACHMENT! It will unleash a worm that may very well render your email address
inoperable. This is a self-replicating worm that has infected your host’s
server and sent itself to every subscriber receiving email through said host, in
this case bigmagic.
Such infected attachments are comparatively easy to recognize. With a message generally as unspecific as the one quoted above, the email directs you to open the infected attachment for further details. Another example:
Subject:
Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:02:26 -0700 (MST)
From: ASU Postmaster Postmaster@asu.edu
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
This
report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:
Message-id:
<200307152159.h6FLxjqi395083@logs-wg.proxy.aol.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:59:49 +0000 (PM)
From: "Address:blackj" <"Address:blackj"@bigmagic.com>
To: asuweb@asu.edu
Subject: Fw: An 8th Grade Graduation Gift
Your
message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient
address: web.questions@MAINEX1.ASU.EDU
Original address: asuweb@asu.edu
Reason: "A VIRUS WAS DETECTED IN YOUR E-MAIL:
Found the W32/Yaha.g@MM virus !!!"
Message rejected: Conversion failure.
Original-envelope-id:
0HI3003046JYP4@asu.edu
Reporting-MTA: dns;post1.inre.asu.edu
(conversion.post1.inre.asu.edu)
Action:
failed
Status: 5.600.500
("A
VIRUS WAS DETECTED IN YOUR E-MAIL:
Found the W32/Yaha.g@MM virus !!!")
Original-recipient: rfc822;asuweb@asu.edu
Final-recipient: rfc822;web.questions@MAINEX1.ASU.EDU
Subject:
Fw: An 8th Grade Graduation Gift
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:59:49 퍍 (PM)
From: "Address:blackj" <"Address:blackj"@bigmagic.com>
To:
asuweb@asu.edu
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
quoted-printable 22 LxFFFFAn 8th Grade Graduation Gift To You My graduation gift
to you is a penny but why Look at the penny and you will understand The year is
22 so you will always remember this special time Honest Abe Lincoln is on the
front always be honest with yourself and others The word LIBERTY as t. See the
attachment
Many other viruses sent
under our forged address have been
reported by vineland.org . REMEMBER:
Don’t open an attachment unless you are positive you know who sent it to you.
In fact, the wisest thing to do before you open ANY attachment would be to send an email to the sender asking
if the sender did indeed send you the attachment. ##
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